25:3 So a strong nation will extol you;
the towns of 1 powerful nations will fear you.
40:17 All the nations are insignificant before him;
they are regarded as absolutely nothing. 2
1 tn The Hebrew text has a singular form, but it should be emended to a plural or eliminated altogether. The noun may have been accidentally copied from the preceding verse.
2 tn Heb “[as derived] from nothing and unformed.”